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SUBMITTER: Jiang Z
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7603143 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Jiang Zheng Z Wei Junwei J Liang Yunxiang Y Peng Nan N Li Yingjun Y
Antibiotics (Basel, Switzerland) 20201019 10
Antibiotic resistance is becoming the biggest threat to global health. At the same time, phage therapy is witnessing a return of interest. The therapeutic use of bacteriophages that infect and kill bacteria is a suitable strategy to combat antibiotic resistance. Furthermore, bacteriophages are increasingly used in combination with standard antibiotics against drug-resistant pathogens. Interestingly, we found that the engineered mycobacteriophage phAE159 and natural phage D29 cannot infect the <i ...[more]